Title :
Cases of developing of strategic information systems at Nippon Steel Corporation
Author :
Miyazawa, Nobuyoshi ; Koike, Yoshio
Author_Institution :
Nippon Steel Inf. & Commun. Syst. Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Describes cases of developing strategic systems such as the Company-Wide Sales & Production Control System, the Company-Wide Comprehensive Production Technology Control System, and the Nippon Steel In-House Information & Communication System, which played an important role in overcoming the difficulties occurred by the oil crises of 1973 and 1978 and the sudden appreciation of the yen in the wake of the Plaza Agreement of 1985, and achieving a great improvement in the management structure of Nippon Steel Corporation
Keywords :
management information systems; manufacturing data processing; marketing data processing; production control; steel industry; Company-Wide Comprehensive Production Technology Control System; Company-Wide Sales & Production Control System; Nippon Steel Corporation; Nippon Steel In-House Information & Communication System; Plaza Agreement; management structure; oil crises; strategic information systems; yen; Communication system control; Control systems; Crisis management; Information systems; Marketing and sales; Petroleum; Production control; Production systems; Steel; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1991. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kauai, HI
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1991.184062
